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Many years ago I picked up a book that literally blew my mind. It was the Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll and it's a genuine classic, a true tale of hackers and how one was tracked down in the very early days of the internet. Now the story is about events in 1986, so it captures the state of technology at the time (which rather dates the book), but wow, what a great story. So why mention the... [More]

The first update for Storwize V7000 and SVC release 6.3 is now available. You will find it here for Storwize V7000 and here for SVC (note both links will require you to login to Fix Central with your IBM ID). As usual the new release contains a combination of new features and fixes. The new features are: New features in SVC 6.3.0.1
* Support for multi-session iSCSI host attachment
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The Storwize V7000 and SVC have a command line interface that you access via SSH . Every-time you logon, whether it is to transfer a file (using a tool like pscp ), issue a single shot command from a script (using a tool like plink ) or logon to issue commands interactively (using a tool like PuTTY ), you clearly need to authenticate yourself. Since June 2003, the way you did this was to... [More]